Simon Alvey, Will Cooling & Democratic Republic of Luke Middup return to discuss the impending replacement of Sir Keir Starmer with Andy Burnham, the growing problems facing Nigel Farage and the conviction of Jeffrey Donaldson. We then talk the World Cup and make our cultural recommendations.

Simon Alvey, Will Cooling and Dr Luke Middup return to talk the World Cup. They talk the many issues with the Americans attitude to the tournament and FIFA's handling of the tournament. They then discuss what's ahead for England and Scotland before picking who they think will win or shockingly lose.

Not only do Will Cooling and Dr Luke Middup failure to adequately explain the susicipious absence of Simon Alvey MA (as if a politics podcaster has a girlfriend or active social life) they also fail to talk about their favourite leadership elections or the World Cup. Instead they witter on about what's going on in Wales or Scotland, as if anyone cares about those countries. Thankfully Will liven things up by giving detailed descriptions of both how the D'Hondt electoral system works and how he screwed over his rivals for SU Exec 2007/8. Luke tries us back on track by talking about pleasant conversations he had with a workplace colleague.

Maybe in the same way the Labour Party is like a bird in that it needs both wings to flap so it can fly, this podcast is a tricycle in that we need all three wheels spinning to stay in a straight line. Plus the vehicle is being driven by children.

Enjoy the podcast everyone! It is actually the best, late UK m1d-TerMz 2o2six podcast you can find.

(Apologies if there's audio issues towards the end my earphones were giving way)